Not a single person on the thread pointed this out, but Patrick Bateman did
not graduate from Harvard Law. He graduated from Harvard
Business School. Regardless of whatever his intelligence rating becomes, that is a clerical error which should be fixed.
With that said, I think Patrick Bateman is arguably one of the most straightforwardly Gifted characters on the entire site, at least academically. Sure, you can argue his academic/business intelligence is Gifted, while his reasoning capabilities are lesser, but to make the assertion that obtaining a Master's Degree isn't enough for Gifted intelligence is just absurd, in my opinion. Take note of how Gifted is described in our own intelligence page:
Now, read how the
Australian Government (which, I know, is not American, but they award the same degrees, and their Master's programs have the same requirements as America's) describes a Master's Degree:
Of course, this is just a very general overview, and what one learns from their time in graduate school is entirely dependent on the individual. I'm not trying to make the claim that a Master's Degree magically gives you Gifted intelligence, but rather that the entire purpose of the curriculum of a Master's Degree is to provide students with a level of knowledge worthy of "Gifted" intelligence, as per our definition. So, if Patrick Bateman not only successfully obtained his Master's Degree, but also obtained it from one of the most prestigious institutions in the country, I think he is clearly Gifted.
Do you have a specific piece of evidence to back this up?